E.J. DIONNE: Diversity the Democrats' strength, and challenge

     



Albany Herald, February 16, 2020

The Edison Media poll asked voters this: “If the Democratic nominee is a woman, do you think that it would make it easier to beat Trump, harder to beat Trump” or make “No difference.”
The poll found that only 9 percent thought that being a woman would make it easier to beat Trump. Nearly four times as many — 34 percent — thought being a woman would make it harder...
 Face it, Democrats: You are the diverse party, and Republicans are the homogeneous party. Democrats include moderates and the left; Republicans are almost uniformly conservative. Among their elected officials, Democrats are the party of racial and gender diversity; Republicans aren’t. In the House, 37.9 percent of Democratic members are women, and 36.6 percent are African-American or Latino. The numbers for the GOP: 6.6 percent women, 3.6 percent black or Latino.
Diversity is a source of pride for Democrats. But that pride must be matched by patience among the party’s ideological factions and its many different social groups, and by an embrace of the equal dignity of all members. The most important philosophical battles and group conflicts will be fought out among Democrats because Republicans, by the very nature of who they are, stand detached from these struggles.
Fighting exclusion while building electorally-necessary solidarity isn’t easy.
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Diversity is not the Democrats' strength. It is the reason the Republican Party has come to dominate the United States. When the Democrat Party advanced the economic interests and respected the social concerns of white men who were not rich and who knew they would not benefit from Republican economic policies, the Democrats dominated the United States. By throwing those men under the bus the Democrat leaders destroyed the New Deal Coalition that had governed the United States since the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. 
By the early 1970's it had  become obvious that ending racial discrimination would not achieve racial equality. Rather than re evaluate the biologically egalitarian assumptions that had inspired the civil rights movement, leaders of the Democrat Party decided to force racial equality with programs like affirmative action and forced school busing. In addition, liberals made it dangerous to examine scientific evidence for the relationships between IQ, success in life, race, and crime.  
The Democrat Party needs to win back much of the once Solid South, and most of the white working class. It will not do so by nurturing delusions like "Diversity is our strength," and "Race is only a social construct."  

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